America Reads 2016

TOP 40: Nominations for 2016

1. Ayn Rand (1905−1982). The Fountainhead, 1943


2. Kurt Vonnegut (1922−2007). Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, 1969


3. Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867−1957). Little House in the Big Woods, 1932 (Little House Series)


4. Joseph Smith, Translator(1805−1844).The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, 1830


5. Willa Cather (1873−1947). My Ántonia, 1918


6. Alex Haley (1921−1992). Roots, 1976


7. Ayn Rand (1905−1982). Anthem, 1938


8. Alice Walker (b. 1944). The Color Purple, 1982


9. John Steinbeck (1902−1968). Of Mice and Men, 1937


10. John Steinbeck (1902−1968). East of Eden, 1952


11. Sylvia Plath (1932−1963). The Bell Jar, 1963


12. Tim O'Brien (b. 1946). The Things They Carried, 1990


13. Carl Bernstein (b. 1944) and Bob Woodward (b. 1943). All the President's Men, 1974


14. Arthur Miller (1915−2005). Death of a Salesman, 1949


15. Arthur Miller (1915−2005). The Crucible, 1953


16. Ernest Hemingway (1899−1961). The Old Man and the Sea, 1952


17. Ken Kesey (1935−2001). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962


18. Hunter S. Thompson (1937−2005). Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1972


19. Ernest Hemingway (1899−1961). The Sun Also Rises, 1926


20. John F. Kennedy (1917−1963). Profiles in Courage, 1956


21. Stephen King (b. 1947). The Stand, 1978


22. Larry McMurtry (b. 1936). Lonesome Dove, 1985


23. Judy Blume (b. 1938). Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, 1970


24. Howard Zinn (1922−2010). A People's History of the United States, 1980


25. James Fenimore Cooper (1789−1851). The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, 1826


26. Robert A. Heinlein (1907−1988). The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1966


27. Wilson Rawls (1913−1984). Where the Red Fern Grows,1961


28. Madeleine L'Engle (1918−2007). A Wrinkle in Time, 1962


29. Frank Herbert (1920−1986). Dune, 1965


30. Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937). Gravity's Rainbow, 1973


31. Simone Beck (1904−1991), Louisette Bertholle (1905−1999), and Julia Child (1912−2004), Mastering the Art of French Cooking, 1961


32. Kate Chopin (1850−1904). The Awakening, 1899


33. Shel Silverstein (1930−1999). The Giving Tree, 1964


34. Milton Friedman (1912−2006). Capitalism and Freedom,1962


35. Milton Friedman (1912−2006) and Rose Friedman (1910−2009). Free to Choose, 1980


36. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803−1882). Nature, 1836


37. Napoleon Hill (1883−1970). Think and Grow Rich, 1937


38. John Kennedy Toole (1937−1969). A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980


39. Robert Penn Warren (1905−1989). All the King's Men, 1946


40. Robert Pirsig (b. 1928). Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974